• journal_title：The Leading Edge
• Contributor：Kevin Dodds ; Tom Daley ; B. Freifeld ; Milovan Urosevic ; Anton Kepic ; Sandeep Sharma
• Publisher：Society of Exploration Geophysicists
• Date：2009-
• Format：text/html
• Language：en
• Identifier：10.1190/1.3167783
• journal_abbrev：The Leading Edge
• issn：1070-485X
• volume：28
• issue：7
• firstpage：812
• section：monitoring

The Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) is currently injecting 100,000 tons of CO₂ in a large-scale test of storage technology in a pilot project in southeastern Australia called the CO2CRC Otway Project. The Otway Basin, with its natural CO₂ accumulations and many depleted gas fields, offers an appropriate site for such a pilot project. An 80% CO₂ stream is produced from a well (Buttress) near the depleted gas reservoir (Naylor) used for storage (Figure 1). The goal of this project is to demonstrate that CO₂ can be safely transported, stored underground, and its behavior tracked and monitored. The monitoring and verification framework has been developed to monitor for the presence and behavior of CO₂ in the subsurface reservoir, near surface, and atmosphere. This monitoring framework addresses areas, identified by a rigorous risk assessment, to verify conformance to clearly identifiable performance criteria. These criteria have been agreed with the regulatory authorities to manage the project through all phases addressing responsibilities, liabilities, and to assure the public of safe storage.

This paper originally appeared in the ^©2008 Offshore Technology Conference published presentations and is reprinted with permission.